Re: [PATCH v2] arch/x86/kvm/ioapic: Remove license boilerplate with bad FSF address

On Mon, Jul 28, 2025 at 05:28:43PM +0200, Thomas Huth wrote:
> From: Thomas Huth <[email protected]>
> 
> The Free Software Foundation does not reside in "59 Temple Place"
> anymore, so we should not mention that address in the source code here.
> But instead of updating the address to their current location, let's
> rather drop the license boilerplate text here and use a proper SPDX
> license identifier instead. The text talks about the "GNU *Lesser*
> General Public License" and "any later version", so LGPL-2.1+ is the
> right choice here.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth <[email protected]>
> ---
>  v2: Don't use the deprecated LGPL-2.1+ identifier

If you look at the LICENSES/preferred/LGPL-2.1 file, it says to use:
	SPDX-License-Identifier: LGPL-2.1+

as the kernel's SPDX level is older than you might think.

Also, doesn't the scripts/spdxcheck.pl tool object to the "or-later"
when you run it on the tree with this change in it?

thansk,

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